On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 01:32:03AM -0400, Jay Sekora wrote:
> Kervin L. Pierre wrote:
> I could certainly
> get a much better handheld organizer from one of the non-X-based choices.
> But that's not what I want. I want a way to run the same apps I run
> at home and at work when I'm on the subway, and I'm willing to sacrifice
> a lot of PDA/organizer functionality for that.
..
> That's *certainly* not typical of most PDA users
I think you are a more typical user then you believe. The majority of users
want that. The point of having one organiser on the desktop and on the PDA
is solved in both cases with a common library. You want X, I want Qt ;)
The point stays the same.
The problem of running your apps remotely does strike me as odd. You have the
app on both machines, so the only difference is the data on the 'machine'.
Short term you are right that the apps you love should run on X, so you don't
have to share the data, you just run remotely, but that does not really solve
the problem, its a workaround. (A good one for you, but most people don'
t use X as easily as you do :)
If Linux PDAs are going to be more widespread I certainly believe the Qt saying
'code ones, compile anywhere' is more powerfull then X apps (or gtk or ...) will
ever be. If only because that 'anywhere' is also on Windows and Mac.
The need to run applications remotely will be solved if your environment is
truely the same on your PDA and your desktop. This means that your data should
also 'just be there'.
The solution I was looking into for data synchronisation is
http://www.inter-mezzo.org
and it really looks good. The only 'problem' is that it needs a journalling
filesystem to put its stuff on. AFAIK the Zaurus does not use that currently.
This is all long term stuff; of no use to current users. The thing is; if you
intend to design something now, while the market is quite empty, please don't
take a lot of old cruft with you in the setup of your new API.
--
Thomas Zander zander@planescape.com
We are what we pretend to be
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